Biz_BizinBrief_12_20_BizinBrief 12 / 17 / 20 5 : 10 PM Page 1 bizINbriefB U S I N E S S N E W S F R O M A R O U N D S O U T H J E R S E Y would hold up to 1,065 homes , with 213 by acquiring a 25 % interest in the 1,100 units to be affordable housing . mega - watt Ocean Wind project . The New Jersey State Board of Utili - The Camden County Freeholder A planned e - commerce warehouse ties voted to adopt the state’s plan to Board is providing an additional $ 5 mil - could bring as many as 400 jobs to Cam - build a transmission system capable of lion to the Camden County CARES den , according to Matrix Development handling 7,500 megawatts of electricity Small Business Grant Program . These CEO Joseph Taylor . If the company re - by 2035 , powering 3.2 million homes . funds will be distributed to the 3,100 ceives approval , Matrix Development small businesses and nonprofits that would construct a distribution facility on Bed Bath & Beyond has struck a deal have already received grant funding and 30 acres off of Admiral Wilson Boule - with Kingswood Capital Management , a provide a 20 percent increase over the vard in Camden . Los Angeles - based private equity firm to initial grant amount . sell Cost Plus World Market . The deal in - After a seven - month delay , Dave & cludes 243 brick - and - mortar stores , two Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has do - Buster’s at the Gloucester Township Pre - distribution facilities , an e - commerce nated $ 20 million to the New Jersey mium Outlets opened this month . It’s the business and a corporate office in Cali - Pandemic Relief Fund . That brings the franchise’s third location in New Jersey . fornia . total amount raised to date for the NJPRF to $ 61 million . Moorestown - based Essentra is shutter - Columbia ing its facility , with potentially 118 work - Bank has received the NJ A development agency in Atlantic City ap - ers losing their jobs . Essentra is a Euro - Bankers ’ 2019 Silver Community Service proved construction of a $ 100 million wa - pean maker of component parts such as Award . In 2019 , Columbia Bank employ - ter park at the former Showboat Casino . packing ees volunteered over 4,000 hours and and tapes . the Columbia Bank Foundation donated Earlier this month , Gov . Phil Murphy over $ 2.6 million to the community . Six South Jersey towns — Berlin , Burling - and the legislature struck a deal on a ton City , Glassboro , Millville , Mount new economic incentive program . The Nessel Development has launched Holly and Woodbury — were awarded a new recovery and reform package is Nessel Energy , a division dedicated to total of $ 765,900 from the New Jersey known as providing energy solutions to property Department of Community Affairs to the New Jersey Economic Re - owners by leasing unused rooftop space help small businesses deal with the im - covery Act of 2020 and is scheduled for and providing solar energy production . pact from the pandemic . The grants are a bill hearing as we go to print . part of $ 2.6 million awarded to towns The New Jersey Department of Trans - across the state . A new plan released earlier this month , portation is distributing $ 161.25 million the Parks and Open Space Plan , out - among 543 communities , with these Wells Fargo has awarded New Jersey lines how within the next 30 years , every grants largely intended to go toward Community Capital $ 3.5 million in sup - Camden resident would have access to road construction : port of the Garden State Relief Fund , a park within a 10 - minute walk . • Camden County is receiving $ 9.66 which provides working capital loans to million small businesses and nonprofits affected Atlantic County and AtlantiCare re - • Burlington County is receiving by the pandemic . ceived a $ 1.6 million federal grant to ex - $ 9.14 million pand COVID - 19 testing . • 24 municipalities in Gloucester New Jersey American Water is invest - County will be receiving close to ing $ 1.1 million to replace approximate - Pelton - Shepard Industries Inc . , a com - $ 5.65 million ly 3,530 feet of aging water main in pany that makes gel packs that keep • 12 municipalities in Cumberland Washington Township . food and medicines cold during trans - County will receive about $ 3.49 port , is adding a 15,000 - square - foot million Southern convenience store chain Mur - warehouse to its facility in Vineland . phy USA will purchase QuickChek The Camden County Freeholder Corp . for $ 645 million . Stockton University plans to purchase Board has sworn in its newest member , a plot of land in Atlantic City behind its Al Dyer , Wawa is seeking approval to build a Rothenberg Building and adjacent to a Pennsauken resident . Dyer the property where phase II of the col - tore at Route 38 and Hartford Road in was elected in November to fill the un - s Mount Laurel . The 4,700 - square - foot expired term of former freeholder Susan lege city’s campus will be built . store would occupy roughly 1.7 acres . Shin Angulo . His term will end in De - cember 2021 . Striped Lion Distilling opened in Under a proposed agreement , three Woodbury this month . apartment buildings and a hotel could The New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund be developed at the Moorestown Mall . is giving $ 2.65 million to help school dis - Public Service Enterprise expanded its The four - story apartment buildings tricts across the state , including partnership with Ørsted North America 36 | SOUTH JERSEY BIZ | VOLUME 10 ISSUE 12 | SouthJerseyBiz.net